The Maltese Olympic Committee has selected Sailing as one of the ten sporting disciplines to form part of the Games of the Small States of Europe programme for the Games, which will be hosted in 2023 in Malta.

Sailing has made a comeback to the Games, after an absence of fourteen years. In that edition in Monaco, Tom Zammit Tabona won the Gold medal in the Optimist Class and Maya Podesta had won the Silver medal in the Laser Radial.

The Malta Sailing Federation has been hard at work coordinating and preparing our best talent for these Games. A national performance coach to fine-tune our top athletes has been engaged for the Laser class and negotiations with top performance Optimist coaches will soon be concluded.

A physical performance project with a special fitness establishment has been agreed and the results of this programme are already showing their first results. The Federation is confident that with such a talented pool of sailors and the specialised training it is facilitating, Malta will once again dominate the sailing event.